Green’s Dictionary of Slang

bobbishly adj.

[bobbish adj.]

healthily, cheerily; thus tolbobbishly, elision of tolerably + bobbishly.

[UK]W. Scott letter 12 Jan. in Lockhart Life (1896) 232/2: The book has gone off here very bobbishly .
[UK]Huddersfield Chron. 16 Oct. 3/1: The poet cocketh his nose, and talketh bobbishly.
[UK] ‘’Arry to the Front!’ in Punch 9 Mar. 100/2: Yours tolbobbishly, ’Arry.
[Aus]Bulletin (Sydney) 16 May 10/2: If she did – well, she’d still be a frost. / But I don’ t think there’s much chance of that, / For we’d get all the parsons together, / From Peter to old Biship Barry, / And reel off a prayer for bad weather / And success to yours, bobbishly, / ’Arry.
[UK] ‘’Arry on the Elections’ in Punch 27 July 39/1: Yours tolbobbishly, ’Arry.
[UK]Lichfield Mercury 17 Sept. 7/1: ‘How goes Mrs Gastrell?’ ‘Oh, bobbishly, sir’.